There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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